Karl Marx would love the popular moves among politicians in various state governments and the federal government to ban so-called "junk" food in schools, and to "put healthy food in" convenience stores and on the tables of those they define as poor. It's a very elitist and arrogant mindset that promotes this ideology, and it needs to be addressed.
Gardner Goldsmith reveals many of the myths and lies behind Barack Obama's push for medical fascism. Then, he reveals the shocking attitude of Tom Brokaw, who believes government health plans are good, and that those very same medical plans should restrict expenditures on "the elderly."
What will Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown, who recently beat the Atty. Gen of MA, Martha Coakley, to take the Senate seat vacated by the deceased Ted Kennedy, do regarding health insurance mandates and economic liberty?
How does one look at a potential TSA Head who fears Americans more than the terrorists Americans often fear? One views him as more interested in protecting the US government than the US citizenry.
Furb discusses the recent execution by the Chinese government of a man found guilty of -- not bringing direct harm to other people. Yes, he was selling drugs. Then, listen to Gard introduce two older news stories that highlight the dangers of the government-pushed drugs of choice, the amphetamines administered to kids to "control" their "hyper-activity."
A special message to Mr. Dodd. Be Seeing You. [Sen. Christopher John Dodd (D-Conn.) announced Wednesday that he would not seek reelection. Dodd has been a U.S. senator since 1981, and a representative from 1975-1981.] [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Over the last few decades, I have seen healthcare subjected to more and more creeping red tape that only creates bottlenecks and increases costs as new bureaucratic hurdles are put in place. Politicians cannot solve the problems created by ever-increasing intervention by exponentially increasing their intervention. Similarly, they cannot improve the quality of healthcare and expand access to it for all Americans simply by legislative decree.
The Senate passed its version of the health care reform bill Thursday. We hope you will listen, and give serious consideration to passing on the audio and to taking action to resist these tyrants in government.
Liberty activist Tarrin Lupo discusses how government intervention began to squeeze his private health practice, and how he came to embrace the fight for freedom as an anarchist. Check it out, and tell others that the days of even a semi-market in health care are coming to a close!
Low-income children on Medicaid are given antipsychotic drugs at a rate four times higher than children covered by private insurance, and for less serious conditions, according to new research to be published early next year. Do children on government health care get drugged more often because they need it, or because it's easier for the bureaucrats?
Beware of the supposed gifts offered to you by government, for when it gives you things with one hand, the other hand takes away your liberty and independence.
Raising a child is probably the most important thing a person will ever do in life. Yet we constantly hear stories of child abuse and neglect.
Many Americans who still support Democratic health care proposals have no idea what would actually happen to health care should they pass, according to the New York Times, but are turning out in support on an 11-city bus tour anyway.
An Iraq war veteran once told me he thought his Veterans Administration doctor was trying to kill him. It seems the latest VA cost-saving trick is to try to frighten veterans to death.
The debate over health care reform has turned violent in the last week as protesters on both sides of the issue clashed in cities across the country, revealing a long-simmering civil unrest.
It has become clear to even the least astute observer that the United States is in decline and has been so for some time now. Despite the hollow promises of the government's talking heads, however, worse is yet to come. What is to become of the United States of America? Will the beacon of liberty, already dangerously dim, be finally extinguished?
Dr. Mary Ruwart is a quiet heroine of the liberty movement. In addition to being author of one of the most widely cited books on liberty, she is also a pharmaceutical industry insider, and at the New Hampshire Liberty Forum, she told exactly why prescription drugs (and health care generally) are expensive and difficult to access, and how many people have died because of it.
When alcohol was prohibited in the United States, it didn't take long for people to recognize it as a universally bad idea. Yet the same is true of the prohibition of other drugs, and for the same reasons. A popular slogan at the time was, "Save Our Children: Stamp Out Prohibition." Perhaps we should bring it back, because the war on drugs certainly is endangering our children.
The New Hampshire state representative who made headlines last year when he e-mailed a constituent suggesting that he snitch out his marijuana-smoking friends is at it again.
Most Americans, not knowing any better, think "universal health care" is a really good idea. Unfortunately, there is no such thing. To see exactly what American universal health care will look like, one needs look no farther than the smaller version of universal health care which already exists.
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) drew a crowd of 150 supporters to Pembroke, N.H., late Saturday night to support his potential bid for the Republican Presidential nomination.The fundraising reception, organized by a supporter and held at a private home, raised over $14,000 for Paul's campaign.
The city of Texarkana, Texas, has found the terrorists, and with money from the Department of Homeland Security, is going to go round 'em all up.Or, perhaps, not.
The rite of custom brings us together at a defining hour -- when decisions are hard and courage is needed. We enter the year 2007 with large endeavors underway, and others that are ours to begin. In all of this, much is asked of us. We must have the will to face difficult challenges and determined enemies -- and the wisdom to face them together.
Last year, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill which would have created single-payer health care in that state. But the universal coverage proposal he's offered in its place may be almost as bad.
With each passing day, airport security becomes even more surreal. It's becoming increasingly clear to even the infrequent traveler that Homeland Security has become just another government bureaucracy more interested in enforcing its rules without rhyme or reason than in keeping anyone safe. Here are a few bizarre things that happened over the Thanksgiving holiday.
In this episode, dedicated to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, or Propaganda, federal officials break the law while spreading misinformation to advance their anti-freedom agenda.
What if the government tried to give away a billion dollars to pay for emergency hospital bills for illegal immigrants? Do you think half the Southwest would be up in arms protesting? Far from it, in fact. The federal government actually does have such a program, but it hasn't been much of a success.The program, passed a couple of years back to reimburse hospitals for spending money on emergency care for illegal immigrants, has had very few claims filed, primarily because the paperwork is too onerous, hospital administrators say.
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy is targeting its anti-drug messages directly to youth by maintaining a blog, a podcast, and now, a series of videos on YouTube.
Back in March I reported that Communists had brought a biological weapon of mass destruction into the state of California and were threatening to deploy it, putting everyone in the state at risk. Now they are closer than ever to killing thousands and potentially injuring everyone in the state.
Even as the American Medical Association continues their relentless assault against the medical market through restrictions on both provider and consumer, Canadians finally seem to be warming up to the idea that perhaps government doesn't do things best.
Abraham Cherrix's family attorneys and social services reached an agreement today to forgo chemotherapy treatment, ending a legal battle which began when Abraham chose to treat his cancer with an alternative therapy.
Welcome to the 56th Carnival of Liberty, celebrating the principles of Life, Liberty and Property, a weekly whirlwind tour of the blogosphere's best writings on these principles.
Last summer, Abraham Cherrix, 16, was diagnosed with Hodgkins Disease, a cancer of the lymphatic system. In the fall, he underwent three months of intense chemotherapy which left him nauseated, weak and debilitated. Abraham turned down further conventional treatment, opting for an alternative treatment known as the Hoxsey therapy. Abraham's parents supported him in his decision. But Social Services asked the court to order Abraham to conventional cancer treatment for his own well-being.
An efficient market depends on the consumer being both informed and rational in his choices. This obviously requires familiarity with the performance of the product (success rate, side effects, etc.) as well as an understanding of how the drug works. This is a bit much to ask of your average consumer, considering all of the education and training required to make a doctor or a pharmacologist. It would be a textbook case of a highly inefficient market with a great degree of misallocation of resources. In other words, patients would go broke as they died while pursuing ineffective treatments.
SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: The Surgeon General Lied And Misled About Secondhand Smoke.
Nurse-practitioners apparently shouldn't be allowed to practice autonomously. The American Medical Association thinks they need to be supervised (read: employed) by a doctor at all times.This amuses me given that there is a vast and growing shortage of doctors.
The American Medical Association has been proposing one protectionist or statist piece of legislation after the next, and while their motives are just as impure as ever when it comes to challenging the growth of retail-store healthcare services, as Dr. Thomas Davis points out, these retail-chain clinics aren't the free market supporter's wet dream that some would have us believe.
At its annual meeting in Chicago this week the American Medical Association made several completely statist and asinine policy proposals.Radley Balko jokingly refers to them as the American Meddling Association. And he's completely on point.
The American Medical Association is sticking their fingers in the statism pot and demanding that people carry a certain type of health insurance. I couldn't decide whether to laugh, cry, or break some skulls when I read the language used in the resolution: Personal responsibility through forced participation. It sounds like an oxymoron.
The so-called "Citizens' Health Care Working Group," created by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, which Michael F. Cannon of the Cato Institute accurately labeled as a more or less leftist front group, is soliciting comments on its interim recommendations on how to fix American healthcare. They of course, don't mention any of the obvious solutions.
The basic problem of government healthcare is that no one feels the costs of their actions. Government isn't held accountable for lack of access. Consumers aren't held accountable for abuse of medical resources. And healthcare providers have no incentive either to enter the field or to maintain a high level of quality of care. This is your classic commons situation.What to do about it? Surely the free market is an abysmal failure in this regard; just look at how much we're spending for coverage, which half the time we can't use anyway, right?
You have certainly seen the "Anti-Drug" commercials on television. You know, the ones that encourage kids to find some more interesting or useful alternative to doing drugs. Well, a new study comes up with a startling conclusion: watching anti-marijuana commercials actually reduces negative attitudes toward marijuana. And as usual, there's a government contractor behind the scenes raking in the taxpayer dough.
Updating stories previously covered at Homeland Stupidity in computer security, worker identification, and smoking bans.
New guidelines to be released this summer by the Centers for Disease Control call for doctors to begin offering HIV tests to all patients, not just those in high-risk categories. The new guidelines have biotech companies cheering, but others are worried about the possible impact on the estimated quarter million people who don't know they have HIV.
Yet more anti-smoking "research" aims to mislead and deceive the public about the actual hazards of tobacco smoking and its effect on people.
A couple of interesting notes about smoking bans being passed or in effect in various places around the country. First off, it seems they aren't about clearing the air for non-smokers after all.
On September 24, six bioweapons air sensors around the Mall in Washington, D.C., registered positive for airborne traces of francisella tularensis, bacteria with flu-like symptoms that can be deadly if untreated. At the same time, 300,000 people were on the Mall protesting the Iraq war. So far as anyone can tell, nobody died. Was it a terrorist attack gone wrong, the government running some kind of test, or something else?First, what we do know.
The Drug Enforcement Administration yesterday executed search warrants on three medical marijuana dispensaries, and 20 other residences, businesses and growing sites, leading to multiple arrests. We will not turn a blind eye to serious and flagrant disregard of federal law. There may be those who think we can disregard the court and Congress. DEA will not [...]
Karl Marx would love the popular moves among politicians in various state governments and the federal government to ban so-called "junk" food in schools, and to "put healthy food in" convenience stores and on the tables of those they define as poor. It's a very elitist and arrogant mindset that promotes this ideology, and it needs to be addressed.
Ultimately, the war supporters in Congress prevailed in the vote on the resolution. Still, the vote was significant because it places every member of Congress on the record as supporting or not supporting the unconstitutional, costly, violent occupation of a country that never attacked us. This vote should serve as an important reminder to the American people of where their representatives really stand when it comes to policing the world, empire building, and war.
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